The Harvest is Great and the Workers are Few
Written by MALIK SPELLMAN
08 May 2008
They say that pressure makes the best diamond so that it can shed light in all directions. So I have a great amount of respect for Janice Hahn who was recently on Fox defending the efforts of gang intervention ... read more >>

Cops, Complaints & A Consent Decree
Written by Dr. Firpo W. Carr (Columnist)
08 May 2008
Bratton Boasts Perfection As far as racial profiling is concerned, Los Angeles’ Perfect Department (also known as the “Los Angeles Police Department”) is now in its approximately seventh ... read more >>

America: A Moral Leader?
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson (Columnist)
08 May 2008
The world food crisis—the “silent tsunami”—now threatens some 100 million people across the world. Food riots in Haiti, Egypt and Ethiopia have brought it to international attention. ... read more >>

Repeating History: They Wanted King to Shut Up Too
Written by Jasmyne A. Cannick (Columnist)
05 May 2008
I refuse to live my life tip toeing around as to avoid making people feel uncomfortable when it comes to race, class, and America’s memory problem when it comes to Blacks. As I said before, ... read more >>

Let it Go
Written by Darryl James (Columnist)
01 May 2008
Most Americans subscribe to a religion—Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, etc. With those subscriptions come admonishments to forgive, but how many actually can do what is required to actually forgive? ... read more >>

What Would You Do If...
Written by Jasmyne A. Cannick (Columnist)
01 May 2008
One day you got a call from your 87-year-old Grandma, a grandma who is the least political person you know, who is a Jehovah’s Witness, and is just about—no make that, THE nicest and sweetest ... read more >>

Centuries-Old Segregation in the Congregation
Written by Dr. Firpo W. Carr (Columnist)
01 May 2008
Was Wright Wronged? Well over a year ago a writer for Jeremiah Wright’s church magazine contacted me saying she wanted to review my book, Germany’s Black Holocaust: 1890-1945. In an email ... read more >>

Dear â€˜Mr. Liquor Storeâ€™
Written by MALIK SPELLMAN
01 May 2008
As you may know, you are the first person we as humans turn to when we are feeling down. If our children are born we celebrate the birth of a child with you in mind. You seem to be in all of our thoughts ... read more >>

A View from Haiti
Written by Rev. Jesse Jackson (Columnist)
01 May 2008
It’s the middle of the day; the sun is up, the heat rising in Port au Prince, the capitol of Haiti. Thousands of young men and women fill the streets, lining up, moving from place to place. They ... read more >>

The Quality of the Air We Breathe
Written by TINA SIMMONDS
24 April 2008
A visitor to Los Angeles once stated, “Los Angeles is the only place where you can actually see the air that you breathe.” That statement pretty much sums up air pollution not only in Los ... read more >>

The Mayor Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is
Written by MALIK SPELLMAN
24 April 2008
Los Angeles finally has a mayor who has put his money where his mouth is. This message is to personally thank the Mayor for his input. It is not very often that we find someone who is listening to the ... read more >>

Thick, Healthy or Fat?
Written by Darryl James (Columnist)
24 April 2008
I remember in the late 1980s when Black men first started using the word “thick” to define a woman with ample bottom and/or breasts. We knew what we were describing and it was more about ... read more >>

The Cuban Connection
Written by Dr. Firpo W. Carr (Columnist)
24 April 2008
With all the fanfare going on here in the US with the presidential elections, mainstream media (and even the Black press) have not given much attention to the end of a remarkable era in Cuba. Fidel ... read more >>

Sellouts!
Written by Darryl James (Columnist)
17 April 2008
There are people in every corner of society who are willing to sell their very souls for personal gain, for wealth and fame, or for nothing at all. Amongst African Americans, we often see soul-selling ... read more >>

An Unwinnable War With Whites? (Pt 3)
Written by Dr. Firpo W. Carr (Columnist)
17 April 2008
Barack Obama and Introspective Politics Part 3 of 3 Barack Obama has overwhelming support among Blacks in his bid to be President of the United States. He could easily be conceived as that ‘Black ... read more >>